On Aug 21, 2012, at 16:22 , George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, <goemon@anime.net> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, George Herbert wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:11:49 -0500, Grant Ridder said:
I love spam from Honduras. I am hoping that someone is going to kick this email from the members list.
I'm hoping for something a tad more drastic. The bozo has an upstream, and this is NANOG. :)
Back when I was at Berkeley, we used to punish offenders by routing their packets out to Finland and back (before Finland's net admins figured out what we were doing and quite rightly complained).
Does anyone have a very lightly used, long long low bandwidth link they can dedicate to The Cause?
I'm thinking wire cutters would be more effective.
-Dan
No, no, no no.
The objective is to maximize wasted spammer time. The trick is to not just disconnect them - that happens every day, they just move on. It's to make their life irritating, painful, and less productive, to the point where time they'd be spending getting new business and working on new anti-filtering technology is spent corresponding with net providers and doing network quality checks, wondering if they should or have to bail out of a now flaky network. With just the right mixture, you can waste five, ten, twenty times more of their time with a carefully engineered glitch than you can just chopping them off.
Reminds me of the cmd.exe CGI PERL script I wrote once... I noticed I was constantly getting people trying to execute CMD.EXE on my linux web server. So, instead of filling up my logs with 404s, I wrote a little PERL script to send them a copy of the compiled 64-bit linux kernel one octet at a time with 5 seconds between octets. It truly amazed me how many of the bots would sit there patiently receiving dribs and drabs of traffic until the entire 8+Mbyte kernel was transmitted. Owen